The latest addition to my list of tech pundit geek babes.
She’s good.
And not just in that FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women In The World way.
I’m subscribed to Morgan.
WebbAlert – videocast
Category: videocasts
NOW … Boing Boing TV
Boing Boing is perhaps the world’s most popular blog, winning the Bloggies in 2004 and 2005. It features Mark Frauenfelder, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz and Xeni Jardin.
Boing Boing Boing is their fabulous, but infrequent, audiocast.
NOW … Boing Boing TV.
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WOW! Their internet TV show is just as weirdly fascinating.
You have to watch this, their first episode: Visions of the Future/Listography – Boing Boing TV
Boing Boing – blog
Boing Boing Boing – audiocast
Leo Laporte buys a camcorder
Leo just bought this camcorder.
Looks perfect to me. High definition and records to flash memory. Leo bought 4Gb SD cards.
Apple iLife ’08 supports the new AVCHD codec.
The HDC-SD5 uses the AVCHD format to record full-HD video with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. It employs Panasonic’s original 3CCD camera system, a professional broadcast feature, which renders vivid, true-to-life colors, outstanding detail and rich gradation. The SD5 also boasts Panasonic’s new Advanced O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer), minimizing the effect of hand shake. This technology helps produce crisp, clear images, which is especially important for viewing on large-screen high resolution TVs where image imperfections are easily visible.
The HDC-SD5, which records video onto SDHC/SD Memory Cards, debuts as the world’s smallest palm-style 3CCD full-HD camcorder.
Panasonic has another similar unit, but lighter, the HDC-SD7.
The main competitor is the Sony HDR-CX7 AVCHD, but it saves to “Memory Stick”. I prefer SD card.
If you have an opinion on Flash memory camcorders, leave a comment.
John Dvorak is dead to me
I’ve known for a long time now that tech reporter John Dvorak is a sloppy, irresponsible yellow journalist.
Time to cut him loose. Let him sink to the bottom of the dead pool.
I’ve cancelled my RSS subscription to his blog and videocast. And will plug my ears when he happens to appear on other audiocasts.
His buffoonery is getting old.
Dvorak is known throughout the tech community as being a Troll_(Internet). His theories are far fetched and is almost invariably wrong at most of the conclusions that he draws.
definition of “Troll”:
… someone who intentionally posts derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about sensitive topics in an established online community such as an online discussion forum to bait users into responding.
I love “Ask A Ninja” videocasts
You can see all the episodes of this comedy video blog on AskANinja.com.
Even better are the dogtoon cartoon episodes which you can find on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch “Ask A Ninja Special Delivery Dogtoon” on YouTube.
video – Alive in Baghdad
The runaway winner in the first annual Vloggie awards (Vlog is another bad name for video casts) was Alive in Baghdad.
(That was a surprise to me as they did not have anywhere near the viewership of Rocketboom or other mainstream shows.)
Alive in Baghdad was formed to counter the sound-bite driven, “Live From” news model. Through the work of a team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground, Alive in Baghdad shows the occupation through the voices of Iraqis. Alive in Baghdad brings testimonies from individual Iraqis, footage of daily life in Iraq, and short news segments from Iraq to you.
The CNN news model which got so popular during the first gulf war is limited at best. I much prefer to hear what the people in Iraq have to say.
See for yourself: AliveinBaghdad.org
To see an interview with the founder click PLAY, or watch the clip on YouTube.
everybody loves the Scobilizer
For some reason Robert Scoble is one of the most respected bloggers in the world.
He has become a minor celebrity among geeks worldwide, who read his blog religiously. Impressively, he has also succeeded where small armies of more conventional public-relations types have been failing abjectly for years: he has made Microsoft, with its history of monopolistic bullying, appear marginally but noticeably less evil to the outside world, and especially to the independent software developers that are his core audience.
Economist magazine, Feb. 2005
He has since left Microsoft but his posts are still scrappy. Unprofessional. His Scobelizer blog does not even use his own domain.
Perhaps content is not king. “Rather, conversation is king. Trust is king.”
People trust Scoble. They like him.
Unlike professional PR efforts, amateur bloggers may gain your attention because their opinion is personal. The amateur’s opinion has more credibility with some.
Check his newest venture, tech videocast The Scobleshow.
no longer using the word “podcast”
Apple stupidly is making claim to the word “Pod”. Legal proceedings are threatened.
I never like the term “podcasting” anyway.
Officially I switch to the much more descriptive terms “audiocast” and “videocast”.
Leo Laporte has recommended netcast as a term for both. CBS now uses netcast.
Netcast I will not use. It too is confusing.
MobuzzTV – Karina Stenquist – update
MoBuzz is now my favourite video blog. Check this episode discussing the use of the internet to “shame” those with whom you disagree:
Net-Shaming from Craigslist to Creeps
7 minutes long, high speed connection needed. Far better is to subscribe via iTunes.
Karina Stenquist is the latest of my bevy of internet tech divas. I download her daily.
She’s the English language host of a video podcast out of Spain.
Sassy, irreverent — Stenquist is compelling. Check MobuzzTV.com or search for MobuzzTV on iTunes.
video player – get Democracy
Democracy Player for Internet TV – best release yet! – Cory Doctorow
Normally I watch on-line video with iTunes. But, in reality, iTunes is an audio player with video capability reluctantly tacked on as an afterthought. (That may change this week.)
After one use of the new open source, free Democracy Player, I think I will switch when possible. (Far, far more shows are available on iTunes.)
“Want to see the future of Net video? Download the open source Democracy Player” – Wired Magazine, May 2006
If you want to give it a shot, you need to download their software. It is very easy to use. No learning curve.
Democracy – Internet TV Platform – Free and Open Source
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